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Farmers, Not Bureaucrats, Deserve Control of California’s Water: A Farmer’s Call for Stability
Farmers are at the heart of California’s water wars, but you wouldn’t know it from reading The New York Times. A recent feature on the removal of dams from the Klamath River highlighted environmental and tribal perspectives—yet it failed to incorporate the perspective of farmers like me who are directly affected by these decisions. This… -
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California Democrats Defy Federal Law, Reject Bills to Protect Girls Sports
California Democrat lawmakers killed two bills meant to protect girls sports Tuesday despite pressure on Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to limit girls and women’s sports in the state to biological females. Just this week, the state of Maine lost education funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violating federal law and President Donald… -
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Biden-Era HHS Chief Becerra Announces Bid for California Governor
Former Biden administration Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced on Wednesday that he’s running for governor of California in 2026 to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat. During his four years at HHS, Becerra drew criticism from within the Biden White House for his handling of both the COVID-19 pandemic response… -
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California Funnels $18 Million Into the Left’s Dark Money Network Under Gavin Newsom
California under Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has funneled around $18 million to the Tides Center, a dark money nonprofit that directs donor cash to various leftist projects, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The San Francisco-based Tides Center and its sister nonprofits, the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy, direct money to in-house projects known as “fiscal… -
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‘Empire of Gender Secrecy Policies Is Going to Crumble’ After Trump Education Probe in California, Lawyer Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education under President Donald Trump launched an investigation into the California Department of Education Thursday in a move that could prevent the Golden State bureaucracy from weaseling its way out of a key parental notification lawsuit. The lawsuit focuses on California school policies preventing teachers from notifying parents… -
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Education Department’s Probe Into Anti-Parent California Law Could Help Affected Families, Legal Group Hopes
Aurora Regino was the last to know that her daughter's school district was secretly helping the 11-year-old identify as a boy. An elementary school guidance counselor at Chico Unified School District in California started referring to the little girl with a boy's name and boy's pronouns. Regino said her daughter told the counselor that she wanted… -
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Border Patrol Recruiter Asked to Leave California High School Career Fair
A Border Patrol recruiter was asked to leave a college and career fair on Wednesday at a public high school in Southern California. A post on the El Centro Sector Facebook page described the incident and questioned if “Extremist Agendas in our Schools” played a role in the high school’s principal asking the Border Patrol… -
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Gavin Newsom’s California in ‘Existential Free Fall’
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, as I had mentioned earlier, has had a series of podcast interviews and… -
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California Poised to Disbar Trump 2020 Lawyer John Eastman
The irony is striking for John Eastman, a constitutional attorney and one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers in the litigated post-2020 election. One week before a California panel is set to hear an appeal regarding Eastman’s disbarment, a group of Democrat attorneys general claims a Trump executive order runs “roughshod over the First Amendment” and… -
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It’s Time to Pull the Brake on California’s Bullet Train to Nowhere
The California bullet train to nowhere keeps going nowhere and the Trump administration might finally pull the emergency break. The California High Speed Rail project is no doubt one of the grandest boondoggles in American history. It was originally sold as an efficient, “green” method to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles. Since it was officially approved… -
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California Bill Would Ban Private Firefighters From Using Hydrants, Cites Public Good
THE CENTER SQUARE—California lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban private firefighters, like those who saved many buildings in the Palisades and Eaton fires, from using public hydrants, saying firefighting is a “public good.” Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, introduced Assembly Bill 1075 with the support of the California Professional Firefighters Union, which claims private… -
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Stop California Absurd Hydrogen Car Subsidies Before Approving Federal Fire Aid
Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested $40 billion in federal aid to assist California in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires last month. As a Pacific Palisades resident, I can attest the devastation is catastrophic and funds are desperately needed. However, the Trump administration is poised, understandably, to tie a lot of strings to any… -
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Ric Grenell Says He Will Run for Governor of California on Only One Condition
OXON HILL, Md.—Ric Grenell, former ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence in the first Trump administration, said he might run for governor of California, but only under one condition. Dasha Burns, the White House bureau chief for Politico, interviewed Grenell on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday…. -
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Defensive Gun Uses Show Faulty Premise of California Gun Laws
As wildfires raged last month in California, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, often with just minutes of warning. To make matters worse, looters took advantage of the chaos and lack of police resources, showing up in droves to ransack evacuated areas—sometimes as helpless residents looked on in horror as… -
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‘Nowhere Near Over’: California and Minnesota Face Federal Investigation for Refusing to Implement Trump’s Ban on Men in Women’s Sports
Female athletes and their families are gearing up for legal battles as high school athletic associations in California and Minnesota face a federal investigation for refusing to implement President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning men from women’s sports. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced investigations Wednesday into the Minnesota State… -
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Here’s How Senate Republicans Respond to California’s Devastating Wildfires
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Senate Republicans are working to eliminate the environmental regulations they think contributed to the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires last month. In response to the wildfires, which devastated more than 60 square miles of Southern California, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joining two other senators, introduced two measures Tuesday intended to… -
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Trump Works to End California’s Man-Made Drought
California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water. After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to “ensure adequate water resources in Southern California.” He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs…. -
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California Congressman Slams Newsom Appointee for Dismantling Volunteer Fire Unit
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has sharply criticized a high-ranking appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom for dismantling the state’s emergency response volunteer firefighting units. Shortly after Newsom appointed Matthew Beevers as adjutant general of the California Military Department in May 2023, Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer… -
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Here’s Where California Democrats Are Pointing the Finger of Blame for Wildfires
You knew this was coming. California’s Democrat legislators presented a bill Monday to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the Los Angeles fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Senate Bill 222 aims to blame the fires on climate change caused by fossil fuels and make the oil companies bankroll the state’s underfunded insurance… -
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I Was Evacuated During the California Fires. The Same Politicians Responsible for LA’s Destruction Shouldn’t Oversee Its Rebuilding.
Virtually the entire town of Pacific Palisades, my home, has been destroyed by the recent fire. The fact that Pacific Palisades and so much of Los Angeles is in ruins is all one needs to know to conclude that Los Angeles’ and California’s leaders were grossly negligent. This simply cannot happen in a modern, wealthy,…